By Grant Schwab, Summer Ballentine, Breana Noble, The Detroit News

President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs and tariff threats could intensify challenges for Michigan’s trade-reliant economy, though analysts noted the potential for both benefits and risks from the GOP leader’s newest proposal.

Trump floated the idea last week of a 100% import tax on semiconductors — crucial components of electronic devices, cars and trucks, and other machines omnipresent in modern life — unless foreign producers make commitments to invest and build manufacturing facilities in the United States.

“If that indeed is put in place, I think that opens the door to Michigan again for the simple fact that we design, engineer and make things here,” said Glenn Stevens, executive director of MichAuto, the a

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